Roy Harris, Roy Harris, Talbot Taylor

Landmarks In Linguistic Thought Volume I (eBook, ePUB)

The Western Tradition From Socrates To Saussure

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

By introducing the reader to the main issues and themes that have determined the development of the Western linguistic tradition, an evolution of linguistic thought quickly becomes apparent.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. August 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134740987
• Artikelnr.: 42718708

Autorenporträt

Roy Harris is Emeritus Professor of General Linguistics in the University of Oxford. He is the author of The Language-Makers (1980), The Language Myth (1981), The Origin of Writing (1986), The Language Machine (1987), Reading Saussure (1987), Language, Saussure and Wittgenstein (1988), Signs of Writing (1995) and Signs, Language and Communication (1996). His award-winning translation of Saussure's Course in General Linguistics was published in 1983.,
Talbot J. Taylor is L.G.T. Cooley Professor of English and Linguistics at the College of William and Mary, Virginia. He has published widely on language theory and the history of linguistic ideas. He is the author of Mutual Misunderstanding (1992) and Apes, Language and the Human Mind, with Sue Savage-Rumbaugh and Stuart Shanker. He and Roy Harris are Co-Editors of the journal Language & Communication.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Socrates on names
Chapter 2 Aristotle on metaphor
Chapter 3 The Bible on the origin and diversification of language
Chapter 4 Varro on linguistic regularity
Chapter 5 Quintilian on linguistic education
Chapter 6 Thomas of Erfurt on the modes of signifying
Chapter 7 Caxton on dialects
Chapter 8 The Port-Royal Grammar
Chapter 9 Wilkins on a real character
Chapter 10 Locke on the imperfection of words
Chapter 11 Condillac on the origin of language and thought
Chapter 12 Horne Tooke on etymological metaphysics
Chapter 13 Humboldt on linguistic and mental diversity
Chapter 14 Müller on linguistic evolution
Chapter 15 Frege on sense and reference
Chapter 16 Saussure on language and thought